Paradoxes of Belief and Strategic Rationality

Informationen zum Autor Robert C. Koons is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author and editor of seven books, including most recently The Atlas of Reality (with Timothy Pickavance), and Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science (with William Simpson and Nicholas Teh). Klappentext This book develops a framework for analysing strategic rationality! a notion central to contemporary game theory. Zusammenfassung The author argues that a logical paradox lies at the root of a number of persistent puzzles in game theory! in particular those concerning rational agents who seek to establish some kind of reputation. This analysis provides an understanding of how the rational agent model can account for the emergence of rules! practices and institutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; The Scope of Paradox; The Significance of Paradox; Part I. Paradoxes; 1. Doxic paradoxes without self-reference; 2. Doxic paradoxes and reputation effects in iterated games; 3. A study of liar-like epistemic paradoxes; 4. A computational account of mutual belief; 5. A critique of context-insensitive solutions to the liar paradox; 6. Three context-sensitive solutions to the liar paradox; 7. Applying the context-sensitive solutions to doxic paradox; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Robert C. Koons
• Assisted by: Ken Binmore (Editor), Brian Skyrms (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.1992
• EAN: 9780521412698
• ISBN: 978-0-521-41269-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American; Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works